ISBN:
069105732X
,
0691057311
,
9780691057323
,
9780691057316
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 325 Seiten
,
23 cm
DDC:
211/.60954
Keywords:
Secularism History
;
Nationalism History
;
Muslims in literature
;
Jews in literature
;
Jews Identity
;
History
;
Liberalism History
;
Secularism India
;
History
;
Nationalism India
;
History
;
Muslims in literature
;
Jews in literature
;
Jews Europe
;
Identity
;
History
;
Liberalism Europe
;
History
;
India Colonial influence
;
India Colonial influ
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Juden
;
Europa
;
Indien
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Literatur
Abstract:
Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India. Aamir Mufti identifies the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India as a colonial variation of what he calls "the exemplary crisis of minority"--Jewishness in Europe. He shows how the emergence of this conflict in the late nineteenth century represented an early instance of the reinscription of the "Jewish question" in a non-Western society undergoing modernization under colonial rule. In so doing, he charts one particular route by which this European phenomenon linked to nation-states takes on a global significance. Mufti examines the literary dimensions of this crisis of identity through close readings of canonical texts of modern Western--mostly British-literature, as well as major works of modern Indian literature in Urdu and English. He argues that the one characteristic shared by all emerging national cultures since the nineteenth century is the minoritization of some social and cultural fragment of the population, and that national belonging and minority separatism go hand in hand with modernization
Abstract:
Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India. Aamir Mufti identifies the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India as a colonial variation of what he calls "the exemplary crisis of minority"--Jewishness in Europe. He shows how the emergence of this conflict in the late nineteenth century represented an early instance of the reinscription of the "Jewish question" in a non-Western society undergoing modernization under colonial rule. In so doing, he charts one particular route by which this European phenomenon linked to nation-states takes on a global significance. Mufti examines the literary dimensions of this crisis of identity through close readings of canonical texts of modern Western--mostly British-literature, as well as major works of modern Indian literature in Urdu and English. He argues that the one characteristic shared by all emerging national cultures since the nineteenth century is the minoritization of some social and cultural fragment of the population, and that national belonging and minority separatism go hand in hand with modernization
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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